got through. There were all the lame folks, the old people leaning on their crutches, some were on litters or hobbling along with sore feet and sore backs. There were all sorts of dis eases and difficulties they encountered. But when I read the 105th Psalm I discovered that there weren’t people like this at all. I had to throw the sermon in my waste basket. I couldn’t even preach it once. You see, God took care of these people. Moses didn’t need to have one anxious moment about any of them. The only thing he would ever need, which is certainly true with us, was more faith in believing the Lord’s promises. Have you experi enced this in your life? When every thing seems impossible to you, and you don’t know which way to turn,* or how to get out of your dilemma, do you commit everything to the Lord and trust Him? It only makes good sense to do this. We wouldn’t know what to do ourselves anyway. We must rest in Him and then see what He will do. The Lord told the Israelites to camp by the Red Sea. He was to bring Pharaoh and his army up behind them so that He might show Himself strong before Egypt. Out of a seem ing certain defeat, God would bring victory. God told Moses, “My pres ence shall go with thee and I will give thee rest.” The Lord didn’t tell him how He was going to accomplish this. That He promised was to be enough- Oh, how the people must have been wringing their hands in fear. They no doubt thought all was lost and that they were finished. The Lord told the priests to carry the ark and to go for ward. When they put their feet in the water, it would separate so that all could walk in safety. They all went through on dry land in a remarkable miracle of the Lord. This gave Moses at least a temporary peace of heart. He was human just like we are. Yet 19
G od g i ve s US some magnificent truths, using as few as five words. The same would take us hours to describe. Such is the case with the mighty message in Exodus 34:21, “Six days shalt thou work.” This should mean a great deal to us when we consider how busy these days seem to be. We wear Ourselves out just trying to exist. Now the unions are going to push for a 35-hour work week. Then the problem we will face is what to do with all the leisure time. Gold told Israel, “In earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.” (Ear ing time is when they take the ears off the corn stalks and bring them in for harvest.) There are those who claim they shouldn’t work on the sev enth day. They actually overlook the first part of the commandment. It says, “In six days thou shalt do all thy work.” (I have never seen anyone yet who, at the end of six days, had everything done. Isn’t this true with you?) This just doesn’t work out for us. We are not very conscientious people. There are a lot of people who just sit around and complain about the government. If these folks would get busy they wouldn’t have time to com plain. God has told us, “Take time to rest.” Have you ever learned how to rest while you are working? Yes, you have read correctly. It is a strange paradox indeed. It can be done while we are communing with God. He told Moses, “My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.” What a wonderful promise. Who could ask for anything more? He had three or four million people to look after and this was a tremendous responsibility. But God always provided. I made up a sermon one time on Israel coming out of Egypt. It was a sob story. I knew the audience would have their handkerchiefs wet when I
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